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by tarkin2 18y ago
On my resource limited laptop, 512 ram, I will move over to chrome if its resource utilisation ends up being similar to chromium's current utilisation: firefox often takes up 50% of my ram - chromium takes up 8%. I'll stick with firefox if
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by tarkin2 18y ago
If google allows strong passwords such as "Password1" then I'm sure quite a few users would pick such a simple password, and I'm sure attackers realise this. It would be wise if google forced the user to enter the capcha on password change.
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by tarkin2 18y ago
I am starting out in the development world. I simply want a job that will push me to the point where I'm confident with my programming and design skills. After that I want to freelance, so as to give me more time to concentrate on the mount
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by tarkin2 18y ago
For anyone unsure what to read, the article on noise is probably the most interesting -- apparently it may help cognition. The article on primate porn is interesting for a look at social dynamics. The article on your subconscious, day dream
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by tarkin2 18y ago
I like how the article descends into a rant about how it would all be a lot better if we all just got drunk, a typically British answer to just about anything.
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by tarkin2 18y ago
The article was dead in the water when it called X11 an operating system.
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by tarkin2 18y ago
And the Buddha had a few words to say on that, too.
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by tarkin2 18y ago
"The author here comes across as too biased and passionate to be taken seriously." I find this the problem with a lot of the Register's articles. The reg can be humorous, and informative, but it often becomes too zealous to be taken serious
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by tarkin2 18y ago
The brick example was used to shed light upon the difference between individual and group activities. It's does not match the activity of voting, I know. However... Your use of the phrase "imposing on others" is telling. It implies you are
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by tarkin2 18y ago
Voting is an aggregate activity. When you think of it as an individualist activity, as an economist would, you fail to see it for what it is -- an aggregate. Imagine if you are in a line of people passing bricks from a collapsed building to
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by tarkin2 18y ago
Thanks for that. The only other question is why hedges decided to short VW's stock. But the article kind of explains that: Porsche's previous buying up for VW stock pushed VW's stock too high for VW's profitability. It startles me, if it's
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by tarkin2 18y ago
the new kernel change my /dev/hda to /dev/sda, which messed up my custom fstab entry. so it went to command prompt on startup to allow me to change it. fine apart from that.
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by tarkin2 18y ago
...and that's one of the hallmarks of bubbles.
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by tarkin2 18y ago
The whole US economy was in a bubble. Because of profitable investments in the housing market, made on faulty assumptions, and cash the mortgage owners had, there was a huge amount of cash circulating. It was profitable to invest in startup
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by tarkin2 18y ago
"tracked... second... by second" : /
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by tarkin2 18y ago
You're right. NoScript was blocking googleapis.
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by tarkin2 18y ago
Help! I installed it, even restarted ff3, and it displays when i right click on the monkey, but i don't see a change... i'm on 1024x748 if that makes a difference.
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by tarkin2 18y ago
"Kids choose popularity over intelligence because becoming successful by being smart seems to be more difficult than becoming successful by being popular. " I quite agree. More generally, it's about increasing one's social ranking in relati
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by tarkin2 18y ago
Well, I gained a lot from my fellow students. I doubt our current best modes of communication can match the insight I gained from the friends which I gained during my degree. Other than that, a self-taught student may be tempted to tackle e
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by tarkin2 18y ago
If we start to link personalities to comments then we add bias to this site. If we try to refrain from introducing personalities the users must then focus on ideas, far better for the development of them.
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by tarkin2 18y ago
"What happens if we instead raise tax rates? Economists of all persuasions accept that a tax rate hike will reduce GDP, in which case Hauser's Law says it will also lower tax revenue. That's a highly inconvenient truth for redistributive ta
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by tarkin2 18y ago
It all comes down to my former worry: don’t we need to strengthen the muscles of our brains? Once our brains find strength largely unneeded, because of the instant Provigil lift, then we’d surely become dependent on the drug.
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by tarkin2 19y ago
The site said the injection is Hex encoded. Therefore, sanitising the input won't work because the injection isn't using any single quotes at all. To be honest, I have no idea how to sanitise Hex encoded input, in either MS SQL or MySql od
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.CSV: The dangers of "human terrain mapping"(blog.steinberg.org)
9 points by tarkin2 19y ago|2 comments
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How Stereotyping Yourself Contributes to Your Success (or Failure)(sciam.com)
29 points by tarkin2 19y ago|14 comments
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by tarkin2 19y ago
That sounds about right, thanks; however it depends on the extant client-side javascript reverting to http while you're not connected to the internet, as pmjordan said.
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by tarkin2 19y ago
"This is actually a very common scenario anytime a laptop connects to a hotspot before the user signs in where the laptop will attempt to connect to Gmail if the application is opened but it won't be able to connect to anything." I'm sure t
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by tarkin2 19y ago
This article was well worth my time simply for: "a business that has placed itself at the center of a web of economic actors".
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by tarkin2 19y ago
I agree with the article. Yet I wish he'd put more emphasis on how drugs can break you out of a loop of depression (what? i'm a computer scientist. can't I make awful cs puns?), and are very useful as long as the users doesn't become depend
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Amazon's DRM-Free mp3s contain proprietary ID3 tags(boingboing.net)
1 points by tarkin2 19y ago|0 comments

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